CC-BYDavoudi, Simin2024-12-092024-12-092024Davoudi, S. (2024). A tribute to Patsy Healey (1940–2024). disP - The Planning Review, 60(2), 71. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2024.24241120251-362510.1080/02513625.2024.2424112https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2287https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2024.2424112disP - The Planning Review Vol. 60 No. 2I write this tribute with a heavy heart as I had never imagined that one day I would write about Patsy Healey in past tense. Her passing away in March 2024, at the age of 84 left planning communities across the world with a deep sense of loss and sadness. But as her commemoration in the AESOP conference in Paris showed, people who know Patsy wish to share their cherished memories of her and celebrate her life and achievements not only as a distinguished scholar but also as a remarkable caring and compassionate person. There is much that I can say about Patsy from my own experience of knowing her for over thirty years as her student, colleague, and friend, but in the interest of brevity, I limit myself to a brief account of her key accolades. After an undergraduate degree in Geography at University College London (UCL), Patsy was trained as a teacher and then a planner, following a Diploma in Town Planning from Regent Street Polytechnic (now University of Westminster). In the 1960s, she worked as a planning officer in the London Borough of Lewisham at a time when, as Patsy often recalled, there was a lot of planning without much clarity about its purpose.enopenAccessArticle